Nicholas Nickleby

This is the illustrated and annotated edition including an extensive biographical essay about the author and his life as well as a wealth of original illustrations. "Nicholas Nickleby" combined the comic and the sensational elements for the first time, and is still the type of Dickens's longer books, in which the strain of violent pathos or sinister mystery is incessantly relieved by farce, either of incident or description. In this novel, too, the easy-going, old-fashioned air of "Pickwick...